Business Day on September 13 featured the articles, Murder Rate Highest in a Decade and Two Out of Five Borrowers Cannot Repay Their Loans. I don’t think one has to be a genius to see a connection.
The latter article states that close to 8-million people are caught in a poverty trap due to reckless lending. I read countless articles about family murders that give the main cause of violence as the inability of the breadwinner to provide for his family...
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